Crime/Public Safety

A home was destroyed and a second one damaged by a fire Monday morning in the Peaceful Valley Neighborhood west of downtown Spokane .

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a 15-year-old boy who escaped Friday from the Kootenai County Juvenile Detention Center.

A 35-year-old Coeur d’Alene man will spend at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing children for nearly a decade, according to the Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

A sea of yellow flooded streets in Spokane on Friday as a procession of fire trucks from multiple counties transported the ashes of Battalion Chief Charles Ronald “Ron” Cato to Calvary Spokane, where hundreds of community members and firefighters honored his memory.

An ordained minister accused of drugging and raping a woman and molesting a child was arrested in Spokane Friday.

Two people were shot after an altercation at a large early-morning party last weekend in the Minnehaha Neighborhood, according to the Spokane Police Department.

None of the seven women serving as Spokane County Superior Court judges is backing their colleague Timothy Fennessy’s re-election campaign.

A 38-year-old man is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl several times last summer, according to court documents and the U.S. Marshals Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force.

A 42-year-old man accused of hitting and killing 78-year-old Janet Mann with his truck told police he fled the downtown Spokane crash scene out of fear and concealed the truck in his garage, according to court documents.

One person was injured in an Interstate 90 crash Tuesday afternoon involving two passenger vehicles and one semitruck traveling west near the Freya/Thor exchange .

Two men in their 60s died in a helicopter crash Wednesday south of Davenport, Washington.

The four finalists are from Tennessee, Arizona, Oregon and Washington, and all have decades of experience.

Two people died in a helicopter crash Wednesday afternoon about 8 miles south of Davenport, Washington, according to Lincoln County Fire District 6.

Police arrested a 42-year-old man in connection to an alleged downtown Spokane hit-and-run that left a 78-year-old author and former foster parenting program director dead last week.

A 39-year-old man who was sentenced last month to life in prison for a Deer Park murder pleaded guilty last week to seemingly unprovoked assaults leading up to the killing, and is still on the hook for another assault involving a hammer at a north Spokane Target.

ST. JOHN, Wash. – Feet up on his desk, leaning back in his chair in this small Palouse farm town, Rusty McGuire said he has a “boring office practice.”

The reality television show “Cops,” which has faced national scrutiny in recent years for its depiction of law enforcement, will return to the region this summer to film alongside Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputies stationed in Spokane Valley and unincorporated areas of the county.

Law enforcement agencies searched a Moscow man’s family home Tuesday looking for evidence regarding his missing 2-year-old daughter and his fiancée who all are believed to be in Mexico, authorities said.

A “catastrophic failure” of an electric bicycle lithium-ion battery pack being charged caused a fire last week that destroyed a Coeur d’Alene Police Department equipment storage building, according to the Idaho Department of Insurance.